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Title: The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel by Mark S. Smith ISBN: 0060674164 Publisher: Harpercollins College Div Pub. Date: April, 1990 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Summary: Excellent Factual Overview Of The Religion Of Ancient Israel
Comment: This is one book on ancient Israel that actually delivers what its title promises. In "The Early History of God" Mark Smith systematically sifts through archaelogical and literary data from Bronze and Iron Age Palestine, the Mediterranean, and Mesopotamia to find the earliest evidence for YHWH, his cult, and his context. Chapters include discussions of YHWH and El, YHWH and Baal, Asherah and asherahs, cultic practices, such as communication with the dead and child sacrifice, at the sites where YHWH was worshiped, as well as a brief discussion of the beginnings of monotheism during the late monarchy. Refreshingly for me, Smith frames his argument on available evidence, not on wishful thinking, and the result is provocative and stimulating. The long introduction to this new edition covers the debate that has gone on since the book was originally published over ten years ago, and the extensive footnotes are a wealth of information on every side of the discussion. This is the kind of book that helps keep scholarship in good repute. Don't wait to read it!
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Title: Mesopotamia and the Bible: Comparative Explorations by Mark W. Chavalas, K. Lawson Younger ISBN: 080102420X Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts by Mark S. Smith ISBN: 019513480X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Untold Stories: The Bible and Ugaritic Studies in the Twentieth Century by Mark Smith ISBN: 1565635752 Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Ritual and Cult at Ugarit (Writings from the Ancient World, 10) by Dennis Pardee, Theodore J. Lewis ISBN: 1589830261 Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Life in Biblical Israel (Library of Ancient Israel) by Philip J. King, Lawrence E. Stager, Douglas A. Knight ISBN: 0664221483 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: 16 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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